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Certain medical conditions can make lift chairs necessary. But sometimes these chairs are just helpful and convenient. If you don't have a serious condition that requires the help of a lift chair but you're considering one, you might wonder how you can know whether a lift chair will be a good choice, or whether a recliner would be fine.
Given that lift chairs do cost more than recliners, because of the quality and the motorized lifting mechanism, they're rarely an impulse purchase. If you...
Maintaining Your Electric Scooter
Everything wears out eventually. It's a fact of life! Even our bodies, one of the greatest machines ever conceived, will wear out some day. But just as we can prolong the inevitable by taking care of our bodies, you can prolong the life of your electric scooter by following proper maintenance techniques to keep it in good working order.
Every day in the life of your electric scooter, there are a couple things you need to keep an eye on - the most important of which is your tires. Without...
How to Choose a Mobility Scooter For Travel
When you use a mobility scooter at home and in your local community, you want it to be able to traverse your hallways and entryways as well as the paths and aisles in your local stores and venues. But when you're choosing a scooter for traveling, you should really look at a variety of scooter features before making your choice. Some scooters are better designed for some areas than others, so choosing the right one can make your trip even better.
First, think about where you plan to travel. If...
Protect Yourself When Traveling With Your Mobility Scooter
Travel safety is important whether you have mobility problems or not, but it's even more important when you use something like a cane, crutch, wheelchair or scooter. Because you may have more difficulty removing yourself from a suspicious situation, you need to take extra precautions to keep your things, and most importantly yourself, safe.
Southern Florida, New Orleans, Hollywood and the Bahamas are some of the most traveled places in the world, and for good reason. Beautiful weather and...
Scooter Accessories You Can't Forget on a Trip
Planning a trip or a vacation is supposed to be fun, so thinking about a canopy for when you're outdoors and a way to stow all your souvenir purchases is a natural way to plan which accessories you'll need for your scooter. But there are some that you need to put on your list to be sure your scooter doesn't fail you when you need it most.
Chargers: A scooter charger is something you should take a long, even if you plan to have plenty of time to charge your scooter each night. A travel charger...
Wheelchair Accessibility For an Entryway: Ramps and Vertical Lifts
People with small mobility issues can usually manage one or two steps at an entryway. Those who use canes and walkers, for example, quickly become good at navigating small steps. Someone in a wheelchair, however, will most likely be unable to go up or down a single step without help. Even slightly elevated thresholds can make getting around in a wheelchair difficult.
For this reason, some homes now have wheelchair ramps in addition to stairs at the front door. This is an ideal solution for a...
Maintaining Mobility on the Go
People who use wheelchairs or power chairs run the risk of becoming isolated out of fear of not being able to get around beyond their own homes. Ramps, handrails and other accessories in a home make it a safe and easy place to navigate. And some people stay at home rather than risk finding that they can't get where they need to go, or that they can't easily get to an accessible bathroom. Unfortunately, there are many places that still aren't accessible by wheelchairs, and those can prove...
Bathroom Independence For People With Mobility Problems
Bathrooms are the site of most slips and falls in the home. Most fall-related injuries are suffered by those who are 65 and older, so there's a special need for safety features in a bathroom when there are elderly people in the home or people who use things like canes, wheelchairs and walkers.
Most people wouldn't balk at someone helping them down steps, into bed or out of a chair. But bathrooms are places where people want to preserve their independence and privacy as much as they can. It may...
Easy Ways to Reduce the Risk of Falls in the Home
Anyone can fall and become injured, but people 65 and older are at the highest risk. Over one-third of this group will fall each year, and unfortunately falls are the number one cause of injuries and accidental death for people in this age group. Falls are also the most common reason for hospitalizations because of accidents. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) statistics, almost 2 million people 65 and over are treated in emergency rooms each year because of falls, and over...
Herbal Remedies and Drug Interactions
Herbal medicine, while having little basis in objective science, has a foothold on the internet. A cursory Google search yields some reputable information, but interspersed within those sources, and jumping from the sidebar advertisements, are offers of all-natural vein-cleaning formulas which will improve your arteries; promises of effective, safe herbal pills from foreign websites that aren't even spelled and punctuated properly; buy one, get one free sales on expensive cardiac support...
Soda Bad, Chocolate Good
Got a sweet tooth? Be careful what you eat or drink to sate it. Recent health research has good news for chocolate lovers and bad news for soda drinkers.
A collaborative observational study between the University of Minnesota and the University of Singapore examined 60,000 Chinese Singaporeans, all of them middle-aged or older. Over 14 years, scientists examined the participants' intake of juice and soda and charted development of pancreatic cancer in those subjects. People who drank more than...
Lift Chairs Versus Recliners
Most people like to relax in front of the TV, sit down and read a book, or simply take a short nap throughout the day. Many times as we age, we enjoy these things much more, but if you can not easily stand up without assistance, you might not be able to enjoy these types of things as much as you used too. Many find that their regular old recliner just doesn't cut it, because they have such a difficult time pulling themselves out of it.
Getting into and out of a recliner is not the only thing...
Finding the Best Lift Chair
A lift chair is a relining chair that is used by those that can not easily stand up or sit down by themselves. A lifting system is installed in the base of the chair and this system is used to raise the chair to a safe standing position. These chairs also offer reclining backrests and an extendable footrest, so in many ways they are similar to a traditional type of recliner.
Usually two names stick out when you talk about lift recliners and most other types of home medical equipment. These...
Doing Zero-Gs in a Lift Chair
If you are a fan of the space program, then you are likely to have heard the term zero gravity. The term is often used to describe being weightless and there are several rides available that let a person experience this sensation. At this point, you might well be asking yourself, "but what does this have to do with lift chairs?" Well let me tell you.
When NASA began testing the first rocket ships for sending the first astronauts into space, they found that the traditional chairs that were...
A Dumbwaiter Guide
A Dumbwaiter is a device that has been used in homes, castles, and mansions for many hundreds of years. They are frequently pictured in movies and television as a means of escape for a hero or villain, but they are actually not intended to carry people, but are instead used to quickly and easily transport household goods.
Dumbwaiters are available in two basic designs: Manual and electric. Manual dumbwaiters were used up until recently in many settings. They usually use a rope and pulley...
Mobility Scooter Types and Features
It can be very difficult for some people with arthritis or neuromuscular diseases to move around the house and other areas. Arthritis is a joint disorder that often affects people over 65 and can make walking painful and difficult. For these people who are mobility challenged, a mobility scooter can be a great way to restore independence and freedom.
A mobility scooter is a type of mobility aid that is very similar to a wheelchair. These scooters are designed to be used indoors and out. While...
What to Look For in a Stair Chair
People have difficulty using the stairs for many reasons. Most often as we age it is due to arthritis, but injury or poor balance can also make it very dangerous to use the stairs. The leading cause of hospitalization of people over 65 is as a result from a fall down the stairs, so the stairs present a real danger to many people. A stair lift is one type of mobility aid that can be installed to a staircase to greatly reduce the risk of falls or injury.
Stair lifts are used in many homes across...
Mobility Scooters Defined
People all over the United States, Canada, and the rest of the World have been using mobility scooters since the mid 60s. They are personal mobility vehicles that can be used as a walking aid for those that have difficulty moving and walking. There are several different kinds, so it is important to find one that is perfect for your needs.
TRAVEL SCOOTERS: These types of scooters are, as implied by their name, intended to be easily transportable. They are light weight and usually provide only...
Commercial Vertical Platform Lifts
Vertical platform lifts are devices that are used by mobility challenged individuals to ascend or descend different areas of elevation. They generally affix to the ground and raise a small platform, which can hold electric power wheelchairs and mobility scooters, vertically over distances that can reach over 12 feet. They are basically a personal elevator that does not require its own shaft, and is for the most part fairly straightforward to install. Since they are commonly installed on ones...
Residential Vertical Platform Lifts
A vertical platform lift is basically a personal elevator. A platform is utilized that raises and lowers vertically the distance of a set of stairs, or areas of different elevations. In residential settings they are frequently used as a means of traversing those often narrow and treacherous porch steps. This is why you frequently hear them referred to as porch lifts. Regardless of what you call them, they are responsible for helping people from all over the world maintain the same quality of...
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